The song "Fortnight" by Taylor Swift and Post Malone tells a story about strong feelings, complicated relationships, and secret wishes. It talks about love, betrayal, and wanting someone who doesn't feel the same. The word "fortnight" shows short-lived happiness and guilty pleasures, leading to sadness. It shows how messy relationships can be and the results of hiding emotions. “I was supposed to be sent away / But they forgot to come and get me,” she kickstarts the song in the first verse with lines suggesting an admission to a hospital for people with mental illnesses. She goes in the verse admitting her lover is the reason why she is like this. In the chorus, she sings about their time in love and reflects on how he has now settled with someone else. “I took the miracle move-on drug, the effects were temporary / And I love you, it’s ruining my life,” on the second verse she details her struggles to forget about him and the negative effects of her failure. “Thought of callin’ ya, but you won’t pick up / ‘Nother fortnight lost in America,” Post Malone sings in the outro.
Girl don't you know
I can't let you go
I want you all the time, all the time
Now can't you see
What you're doing to me
I've got to make you mine, make you mine
Boy you should know
Before I let it go
You got to treat me right, treat me right
Boy can't you see
That I want you and me
Because you look tight, I want you tonight
Love me or leave me
Don't you dare deceive me
Can't you see I'm at the point of no return
Love me or leave me
Don't you deceive me
Love me or leave me
Don't you deceive me
Can't you see I'm at the point of no return
Girl now I know
Your hearts touch and go
I know you cry, I know you cry
Girl just believe
That I won't deceive
I'm gonna make you mine, I'll make you mine
Boy can't you see
If you want to be with me
You've gotta feel alright, you feel alright
Boy desperately
If you want what you see
You better do it right, I can do it all night
Love me or leave me
Don't you dare deceive me
Can't you see I'm at the point of no return
Girl don't you know
I love to be the man who turns you on
Could you be the man who turns me on
Give you the love you're dreamin' of
c'mon girl, I can keep it strong
c'mon baby, keep it strong
Can't you feel my heart beats beating
Don't you leave girl, time is fleeting
You must know that you're the only one
So get ready 'cause here I come
Love me or leave me
Don't you dare deceive me
Can't you see I'm at the point of no return
I can't let you go
I want you all the time, all the time
Now can't you see
What you're doing to me
I've got to make you mine, make you mine
Boy you should know
Before I let it go
You got to treat me right, treat me right
Boy can't you see
That I want you and me
Because you look tight, I want you tonight
Love me or leave me
Don't you dare deceive me
Can't you see I'm at the point of no return
Love me or leave me
Don't you deceive me
Love me or leave me
Don't you deceive me
Can't you see I'm at the point of no return
Girl now I know
Your hearts touch and go
I know you cry, I know you cry
Girl just believe
That I won't deceive
I'm gonna make you mine, I'll make you mine
Boy can't you see
If you want to be with me
You've gotta feel alright, you feel alright
Boy desperately
If you want what you see
You better do it right, I can do it all night
Love me or leave me
Don't you dare deceive me
Can't you see I'm at the point of no return
Girl don't you know
I love to be the man who turns you on
Could you be the man who turns me on
Give you the love you're dreamin' of
c'mon girl, I can keep it strong
c'mon baby, keep it strong
Can't you feel my heart beats beating
Don't you leave girl, time is fleeting
You must know that you're the only one
So get ready 'cause here I come
Love me or leave me
Don't you dare deceive me
Can't you see I'm at the point of no return
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Love of a Lifetime Lyrics as written by Sylvia Bennet Smith Laney Stewart
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"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
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Mountain Song
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Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
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This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,